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«Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.»
Author: Colman McCarthy | About: Pacifism | Keywords: meals, pacifist, pacifists, vegetarian
«There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.»
«Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.»
«I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.»
«The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout»
«The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals»
«From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.»
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
«I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.»
«The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer»